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KEY ASSUMPTIONS IN THIS BOOK The lesson ideas in this book are designed with these key assumptions in mind: 1. Your syllabus is your starting point for planning: Teachers will adapt these ideas in line with their syllabus frameworks. 2. Quality teaching and an underpinning significant idea: The NSW DET’s Quality Teaching framework underpins the design of the learning tasks, with a particular focus on Significance and Intellectual Quality. Our premise is that lessons should develop a significant idea and build students’ thinking, reading, writing or representing skills as well as teaching content. We believe that assessment and learning should align. 3. Building the field and extensive discussion: Students will need teachers to build field knowledge with them through initial discussion and brainstorming, so that students have understanding, fluency of expression and key vocabulary about the topic. 4. Modelled and guided teaching: The lesson ideas work on the assumption that there will be modelled teaching about each new concept or skill. There is also an assumption of guided practice of each new concept or skill, before students work independently, in pairs or in groups. Feedback from student work, as lessons unfold, will show when re-teaching is required. 5. Paired and group work: The lesson ideas are suitable for paired and group work, as well as independent work. 6. Celebrate together: Share and enjoy student work together – this is implied and not stated in the lesson ideas. This is the RELISH weave throughout the READ, REFLECT, RESPOND and RE-IMAGINE learning cycle used in responding to each Other worlds book…
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Extract from Alice’s glog, Rydalmere East PS http://seybqbv.edu.glogster.com/samantha
Other worlds by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink http://otherworlds.yolasite.com